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The online advertising explosion is raising serious data privacy and security concerns.The EU-funded TYPES project ‘protects individuals’ privacy while empowering them to control how their data is used by service providers for advertising purposes,’ says Rosa Araujo, project coordinator for the EU-funded initiative. ‘By raising end user trust and advertiser transparency, all stakeholders of the advertising ecosystem stand to benefit.’

The EU-funded VISION project has developed a visual privacy platform to help public entities deliver transparent and privacy-enhanced e-government services that meet the highest privacy standards and offer citizens personalised control over their data.

CEF Telecom funding is dedicated to Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) delivering networked cross-border services for citizens, businesses and public administrations. More than EUR 7 million will be allocated to eHealth projects.

The fifth meeting of the Horizon 2020 Future Internet Forum took place in Luxembourg-Kirchberg on 29 January 2018.
The main goal of the meeting was to exchange views, experiences and to develop common NGI actions for 2018 and beyond on the EU level, in the Member States and the Associated Countries.

The CAPTAIN project is creating a smart personal coach for your home. It uses technologies that collect and analyze emotional, behavioural and physiological data in a noninvasive manner. Have a look at the video.

This study focuses on identifying promising areas for cross-cutting Internet of Things (IoT) activities and their corresponding business models. It also analyses market and technology related success factors and barriers, as well as the social impact of IoT. Finally, a set of policy recommendations based on the study findings are included with the aim of supporting the European Commission in fostering the growth of IoT in Europe.

Today the European Commission has published the drafts of the revised SMP (Significant Market Power) Guidelines and its accompanying Explanatory Note. Both documents were sent to the Body of Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) for its opinion, with a view to adopt the Guidelines early in the second quarter of this year.

The European Commission has launched a study to highlight areas where further work will be necessary in the short term to fill DSM gaps and to identify future Commission actions that would bring the highest impact in economic and social terms. The study will feed into the analysis of the economic, technological and social dimensions of disrupting digital developments, and the identification of strategies to manage this transformation and maximise its benefits for Europe.